Chapter 23, verses 23-29
23
He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”
24
He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
25
He wrote a letter like this:
26
“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.
27
“This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.
28
Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
29
I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.